mandate
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept; an authorization.
The order or authority to do something, as granted to a politician by the electorate.
A period during which a government is in power.
An order by the League of Nations to a member nation to establish a government responsible for a conquered territory, as the colonies of Germany after World War I.
Such a territory.
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